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Proceedings at General Meetings.
10. Seven days' notice at the least, specifying the place, the day, and the hour of meeting, and in case of special business the general nature of the business, shall be given to the members in manner hereinafter mentioned, or in such other manner, if any, as may be prescribed by the company in general meeting; but the non-receipt of such a notice by any member shall not invalidate the proceedings at any general meeting.
11. All business shall be deemed special that is trans- acted at an extraordinary meeting, and all that is trans- acted at an ordinary meeting, with the exception of the consideration of the accounts, balance sheets, and the ordinary report of the directors and auditors, the election of directors and other officers in the place of those retiring by rotation, and the fixing of the remuneration of the auditors.
12. No business shall be transacted at any meeting except the declaration of a dividend, unless a quorum of members is present at the commencement of the Imsiness. The quorum shall be ascertained as follows (that is to say), if the members of the company at the time of the meeting do not exceed ten in number, the quorum shall be five; if they exceed ten there shall be added to the above quorum one for every five additional members up to fifty, and one for every ten additional members after fifty, with this limitation, that no quorum shall in any case exceed thirty.
13. If within one hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum of members is not present, the meeting, if convened on the requisition of the members, shall be dissolved; in any other ease it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the following week at the same time and place; and if at such redjourned meeting a quorum of members is not present, it shall be adjourned sine die.
14. The chairman (if any) of the directors shall preside as chairman at every general meeting of the company.
15. If there is no such chairman, or if at any meeting he is not present at the time of holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be chair- man of that meeting.
16. The chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meet- ing from which the adjournment took place.
17. At any general meeting, unless a poll is demanded by at least three members, a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has been carriel and an entry to that effect in the book of proceedings of the company, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution.
18. If a poll is demanded in manner aforesaid, the same shall be taken in such manuer as the cbaimau directs, and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded.
Votes of Members.
19. Every member shall have one vote and no more. 20. If any member is a luuatie or idiot he may vote by
his committee curator bonis, or other legal curator,
21. No member shall be entitled to vote at any meeting unless all moneys due from him to the company have been paid.
22. On a poli votes may be given either personally or by proxy. A proxy shall be appointed in writing under the hand of the appointor, or if such appointor is a corpo- ration, under its common seal.
23. No person shall act as a proxy unless he is a mem- ber, or unless he is appointed to act at the meeting as proxy for a corporation.
The instrument appointing him shall be deposited at the registered office of the company not less than forty-eight hours before the time of holding the meeting at which he proposes to vote.